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[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Gizmotech:
There was a time that us Galaxy Ace owners could gloat having an inferior phone to the iPhone users and still be able to watch iplayer through apps such as beebplayer. Well the table has turned and now iphone users gloat that they have iplayer and we don't even have a functional non official one. I know that we can install a modified Flash Player and a BBC iplayer.apk file but in all honesty, it lags so much that it is in reality non functioning. I mean who are we to kidd? BeebPlayer no longer works and there seems to be no other alternative. iphone now not only has iplayer, but also ITV player, 4oD etc. and it's not exactly the most powerful phone around.

I know this sounds like a rant but I think this just lets the s5830 big time. A phone perfectly capable of playing iplayer videos but cannot because of BBC's selfishness. I would like to know if any one else has been successfully with iplayer on the Ace (with no lag) on other roms.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] CallMeVentus:
.....let's just say there's more iPhone devs .

Herpderp Adreno + Tegra.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] sdotmouse:
The biggest issue running the iplayer on a low end phone comes from the BBC recently removing low quality streams that made it useable. Want to use the iplayer? You need a better phone.

They removed low quality streaming because there were a lot of complaints over quality of service. Things may improve when 3G streaming is enabled, but the best option is always going to be to buy a decent phone the Beeb support.

I also miss the option of Beebplayer and MyPlayer. Blame the BBC for issuing C&D's.

Sent from a phone with an app.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Gizmotech:
Apologies if it bothers anyone resurrecting this thread (I can never understand why), but BBC on their blog claim that they can't provide a similar app to that of Apple because Gingerbread devices do no have HLS support. The Solbox HLS Player claims to provide that it can integrate that feature to the native browser. If that was the case then that would mean that we should then be able to go to the BBC Iplayer website and stream video as it should then support HTML5. Now I wanted to try this but cannot access the full desktop site to do so. Can anyone give there thoughts on this.?
[Vega General] blueatom:
Whats the best 32gb micro sd card to use on Vega using Vegacomb 3.2 update 3 ?
[Vega General] yani2000:
Didn't I answer something similar a few threads down?

Just buy any 32GB microSD card. There are no differences. Really!

I think they are all class 4, therefore they all have the same performance.
[TouchPad General] ace9988:
has anybody tried porting the silk browser from the kindle fire on the hp touchpad?
[TouchPad General] carreraella:
yea the browser FC when you open it AVP loads up but there is no way to sign in and when you try to start a video it just says this device is not configured any more
[TouchPad General] Leoisright:
Send it my way. I would like to try and fix it.
[TouchPad General] quarlow:
I tried this any couldn't get it to work either.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1418480

Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
[TouchPad General] puneet_champ:
For those getting FCs on HP Touchpad!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21034688&postcount=86
[TouchPad General] carreraella:
any way we can get the VOD to work I can't log into my account
[TouchPad General] vinscuzzy:
I'm not sure about the .apk above, but following these directions worked for me. Posting from the silk browser on my touchpad now. Its pretty good, nothing all that special in my opinion, but here you go....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1418480
[TouchPad General] isanrap:
Yup the browser is working fine for me. Followed the instructions in the kindle fire port post.
[TouchPad General] viny2cool:
I can hope to see this on the next version of Xron? Please :)
[TouchPad General] rogabean:
Yeah the browser is working here for me too. Can't say I like it though, but it works.
[TouchPad General] gedas5:
Any reasons as to why it wouldn't install on my Touchpad? It says application not installed. But it was fine with the first version. However it was giving FC as to eveyone else. Maybe it's signed incorrectly?
[TouchPad General] puneet_champ:
One of two reasons : Either its signed incorrectly or not signed at all or there is a previous version existing.
[TouchPad General] Capt.Insano:
Worked here also after following the steps in the first post of that topic.

TBH though, I'm not impressed at all. Boat Browser still beats it for me on the TouchPad.
[TouchPad General] gedas5:
@ puneet_champ

But I don't get what can be wrong as others managed to install it on their Touchpads. As you found the solution for the FC maybe you can have a look as to why the application refuses to install? thanx!

Edit: Nevermind. Managed to install it. Cleared everything and did all over again but this time didn't change the permissions and it worked. Thanx for nice work ;) just one thing that I noticed. Even if you choose to use desktop mode in the settings it still gives mobile websites e.g. there's no way to have Vimeo in Desktop mode :(
[TouchPad General] jgeezy24:
Make sure to follow the directions fully. Set permissions correctly and REBOOT
[TouchPad General] A.VOID:
works for me. nice font within the browser

too bad you still get the tool bar on the bottom.

Prime videos not working either. I do get an FC under Video Help menu.
[Galaxy S II Accessories] Cptnodegard:
Just ordered an S II and gathering some accessories for it while waiting for it to show up. The case that comes with the Galaxy Note which has a leather front flap and a back that's actually a replacement battery cover seems so perfect a case to me I was wondering if there's a similar case for the S II? Something that minimizes bulk by utilizing the battery cover as the backside of the case, in other words.
[Galaxy S II Accessories] cold_reading:
I remember that there was a leather folio cover on eBay made by a Korean company called AnyMode. I also remember it was quite expensive. Thought it might help.
[Galaxy S II Accessories] dbf1430:
note-like back case?? sounds great... can u give me the link?? :D
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Hi,

I noticed that my Nexus S has a lot less free SD partition storage after ics update. Found out that the thumbnails file is huge, its over 1gb big. After deleting it now its back to 900mb. Is this a Google joke or something? How can a thumbnails file for a couple of hundred pics be 1 gb big, like 1/3 of the big files!? Is there a way to change this?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
if you are on ICS, it's normal
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Hmm that's a bad combination. Having no options to expand memory on Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus and at the same time thumbnails taking ridiculous amounts of storage...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madd0g:
No way that it's normal. My imgcache.0 file is 19MB, I have about 900 pictures on the phone (Camera, backgrounds, edited stuff, downloads).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shahpur.Azizpour:
19 MB sounds like a fitting Size. But my thumbnail file is again at 900 MB within one day after deletion of the old file, which is crazy.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
nah, i too have 1GB total on combined thumbnails, i do keep a lot of photos in my phone, also take into account the ones for the High Quality Called ID/Contact pictures
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Wait, did you just say high quality contact photos? At least when we are talking about the google contacts they are severely downsized and look like retro pixel art when viewing contact details or an incoming call...taking new high res pics doesnt help as it will be downsized again after sync to the google cloud.

Still im really pissed at the face that we are talking gigabytes of data for thumbnails. If i didnt see it myself i wouldnt believe it.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madd0g:
I'm quite sure those aren't saved on the SD card, but in phone internal storage.

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You didn't say if you have any Picasa folders or are running Google+ photos sync.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shahpur.Azizpour:
I have a picasa folder with about 20 pics. The rest is stored locally only. No g+sync.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sakisds:
This seems strange. I mean a plain 1980x1200 jpg is around 600kb (I picked a random file from my drive), how can a couple of 200x200 pictures add up to 1GB?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Exactly my thought. This just makes no sense. And it wasn't like this on GB. With Gingerbread I had 1GB more free storage.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madd0g:
Really weird hmm ... I know that the Picasa/Google+ photos (whatever they call it these days now) can add up to used storage, but those thumbnails are stored in a separate folder (com.google.plus), where the gallery thumbnails is in com.google.android.gallery3d.

So basically the imgcache.x file is 1Gb large ? Are there more files ? A screenshot of the folder would be interesting.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Here you go. As you see on the screenshot the file is 870 MB big.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madd0g:
Oh, that's a different thumbnail data file then, the ones I've been talking about were in /sdcard/Android/data/*. But it's still ****ing huge, my same file on this location is 244,2M, that's for 800 Camera pictures.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shahpur.Azizpour:
I have no clue why this file is so big. And deleting doesn't help.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madd0g:
Try disabling the ICS Gallery app via Apps info page, then delete the thumbnail file, if it gets remade again then the Gallery app is the culprit (you can use Quickpic as an alternative).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattallica76:
I just did a quick scan of my sdcard to see if I had any large thumbnails. It turns out that all my thumbnails are normal size(between 10-30k).

Bugless Beast ICS 1-5
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleepyEDB:
For what it's worth, I am running ICS on my Nexus S 4G (CM9 Alpha19) and I don't even have a file in that location... :confused:

sleepy
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Hmm very strange. Suddenly the file didn't reappear in my folder too. This has to be an app that creates this file but don't know which one. Its not the regular gallery app though.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madd0g:
Yeah, I've installed pete alfonso's ROM and the thumbnail file wasn't created there.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nagasaky2x:
I'm a bit late but I'm having this problem too, not on a Nexus S, but on a x26i chinese phone. As soon as I do a photo with any camera app, a giant thumbcache starts it's way to take all the internal SD storage. Gallery and default camera app are off so, anyone knows any reason this could happen? running ICS and about 600 photos in the phone.
[Nook Touch General] rbnoggin:
Has anyone worked out the proper install process to get Contacts.apk (along with its provider and sync components) to work on either the Nook Simple Touch or the Nook Color?

I see lots of workarounds to get GMail access to the Google Contacts info, but none that actually get the Contacts App to work properly.

The built in Nook Contacts App just doesn't have the same functionality and features as the Google Contacts App.
[Nook Touch General] Torimu.Joji:
I once tried installing contacs.apk on my NST and it crashed when I tried to open it. So I'm in the same boat as you.
[Nook Touch General] whereiszack:
I cannot get it to work either, and it seems like all other address book apps rely on it working properly in the first place. I would love to see a way to fix this!
[Nook Touch General] whereiszack:
The only way i could make it work was by installing remo sync google apps (or something to that affect). It's an annoying app that constantly asks you to upgrade, but it does enable you to sync all your contacts whi then show up in your 3rd party contacts apps.
[Nook Touch General] cceerrtt:
Hi,

finally I made it work, somehow. I have copied the attached app to /system/app on nook (you need to remount as rw first) and after reboot and some more time I saw Contact in sync options.

Now my contacts are synced and I can see them in Go Contacts or use in K9 mail. :-D

I have also renamed /data/system/account.db to /data/system/account.db.bak + nook reboot. Don't know if it is required - as I said before, it stops rebooting nook in sync settings but also it breaks Shop browsing. I will try to restore account.db.bak now to see if the sync still works (update: yes, it does work both, sync and shop browsing after accounts.db restore).

I am sorry I can't provide exact HowTo, I was trying more things simultaneously and now I don't know what actually made it working.
[Nook Touch General] tebra:
So basically, we just have to copy the attached app to /system/app and reboot?

No need to modify or backup /data/system/account.db ?
[Nook Touch General] cceerrtt:
That's what I can't tell for sure since I was renaming/restoring account.db several times during my testing.

I would say:

0. !!!!!! BACKUP using noogie whole nook image!!!!!!!!

1. install e.g. Synker app and Go contacts

2. remount /system as rw and copy attached app ^ ^ to /system/app, reboot

3. Add new syncer widget and check if you contacts are synced (in go contacts, not the default Contacs application - this one is for b&n contacts and is independent). If not, wait few minutes and repeat step 2

The problem with current account.db is that Sync manager execution is rebooting the nook. Therefore you cannot say if your contacts are synced or not until you try it.

Maybe it can be seen in Synker application/widget settings where I saw 3 google icons (the text is not visible) before contact sync was working, now I have 5 (probably becase I installed also google+ app)

To execute Sync manager you can

A) Go contacts -> Settings -> Backup and restore ->Account sync

B) Synker app -> Settings -> Account & Sync settings

As I said, this would reboot your nook right now.

After renaming account.db nook won't reboot (but Shop browsing doesn't work and probably whole B&N registration is "removed" - the good thing is that you should be fine again after the account.db restore).

Therefore if the previous didn't work, do:

4. mv /data/system/account.db /data/system/account.db.original

reboot nook

5. when nook starts, your nook is unregistered from google, use A or B method to run Sync manager (now it won't crash) and register again with your google account, reboot (for sure)

6. just for sure check if your market is still working

7. run sync manager again and check if you see Contacts to be synced for your google account.

If still not working, what I did was that I tried to remove the google account from sync manager.

8. in Sync manager try to remove your google account. You should got a message that account cannot be removed because there are other applications requiring it.

At this moment I saw that contacts are listed in synced items for the first time.

9. If contacts sync is working (or not), you might want to restore your account.db, therefore

mv /data/system/account.db /data/system/account.db.google # backup the new db

mv /data/system/account.db.original /data/system/account.db # restore the original one

Now shop browsing should work again and if your contacts were synced, the will be synced also in future (although Sync manager app would reboot your nook again).

I am saying again, maybe not all steps are needed, unfortunately I cannot retest it right now. Please share your experience.
[Nook Touch General] captfl:
Contacts working

Ok So this is what I did.

Use root enabled ES file Manager to rename: /data/system/account.db to /data/system/account.db.bak

Plugged nook into PC and drag and drop: GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk from this thread to sd card. ( because the system folders don't show up in file explorer on my pc)

Disconnect from pc.

Used ES File again to copy/paste	GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk from SD card to /System/app folder.

Rebooted

Opened Market, This triggered a request to log in (Accounts DB file renamed!!)

Logged in no problem: (this must have recreated accounts db file)

Downloaded Go Contacts

All gmail contacts visible.

Opened the Device Registrator App (smiley face Icon) that installed as part of clockwork mod rooting. Re registered with BN. I believe this can also be done from the stock settings page

Opened BN shop, all working.

Note: Go Contacts could not edit contacts. Downloaded Go Contacts EX and contact editing is available. Uninstalled original version of Go Contacts. Edited a contact in Gail from PC, Modification showed up on Nook in about 30 seconds. Could not find any sync setting on Nook but it is working in the back ground. Did not install Synker app. Cant say what effect that will add.

Very happy now.
[Nook Touch General] max hd:
that's cool, ^_^
[Nook Touch General] case-sensitive:
Did anyone manage to get this to work? I tried it and it didn't work, but my NST was wonky at the time.
[Nook Touch General] zholy:
Yes, I can confirm, that this worked for me. Big thank to everyone, who found the way, how to enable contacts !!!
[Nook Touch General] mrWax:
calendar sync?

is google Calendar sync also possible?
[Nook Touch General] cceerrtt:
yes, working fine for me. (I am using CalendarPad for calendar app).
[Nook Touch General] case-sensitive:
Finally!

I follow the instruction in post #9, but the longest time I couldn't make it to work. Finally I figured it out: I need to set the permission of GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk to

rw-r--r-- (it was ---rw-rw-). I hope this would help others.
[Nook Touch General] mrWax:
Calendar synces !!! Contacts dont :(

EDIT1: ALL WORKS FINE NOW!

Calendar synces !!! Contacts sync !

-at first contacts didint want to sync. I did some reboots and then open Gmail account info and - voila - there was syncing icon next to Contacts. After a while contacts synced into Gmail, Go contacts also work
[Nook Touch General] smerrett:
Has anyone tried this on the Nook Simple Touch Glowlight or a NST with tinynoot? Tinynoot is the only thing which seems to work with UK NSTG but we can't get markets to work and no account.db file is present. Is there a method which doesn't require market login?
[Nook Touch General] dorfd1:
I just did this but the weird thing is I could not fully reregister using the deviceregistrator app. I had to first register the device using the device registrator app then use oobe reg to register again. the weird thing is I had to create a new account. using the same account details as the original account worked.

I did this to get calendar to sync and to remove a second youtube account that was casuing sign in errors
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rjin9673:
Has anyone tried using it on their NT? My build.prop is of a Nexus S so I grabbed it right off the Market, but I can't get past the login due to a message warning about data usage.

Has anyone else had luck? I grabbed version 0.4.12.180
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] fjsanchez:
Hi rjin9637!

I installed the Spotify app from the website. I have not had any problems with it so far. I went to spotify.com and selected the mobile app. I also selected manual download from the built-in browser. I chose "android 1.6+" as my device. hope this helps
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rjin9673:
Thanks, I'll give that a try!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] 1000cleverlines:
unrelated question:

you need spotify premium to use the app right? that's how i understood it at least...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Doctorword:
i have it on my NT and its awesome, and very loud! I was a beta tester so i dont know if that has any effect but im not a premium user
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] fjsanchez:
I believe premium service is needed as correct. I already had premium service prior to sideloading the app. Can someone confirm non-paid users can access Spotify via facebook login?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] Doctorword:
like i said i am NOT a premium user and I use it all the time I got 487 songs starred lol....but again, maybe its cuz I beta tested the program (even though I was never told Id have premium or anything else).
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] harrygaywood:
Spotify

I just rooted my NT.

I tried installing the Spotify app from the Google Play store but it wouldn't work.

I went to the Spotify website were it installed without a problem.

I am not a premium user.

Thanks for the info
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] wagon_burner:
[Q] nook = "android ADB interface" instead of "android composite ADB interface"

why is tihs happining. i followed everything to the letter. i followed the video's instructions comepletely. nook tablet is ginving me the run around. i uninstalled and re installed the drivers over and over. what do i do? it is showing up as a android phone in the device manager, but it isn't showing up in the nookandzergy prompt. so i dunno if it is because i am missing a word in my driver thing or what ever. let me know please
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knowsnophones:
When I uninstall an downloaded app and clear data from my G-note, is anything left?

I was reading something about APKs being left and that it is different from uninstalling.

Home someone could enlighten me regarding this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranjan.alva:
Ya may be.. if so, you need to root the device to access those apk i guess. but see any folder left in SDcard linked to uninstalled App.
[Motorola Droid 3] Ed27:
I have seen around the forum that many do not find where to unlock their Verizon Droid 3

I recommend this website is very cheap I paid 6.00 Dollars for unlocking code and it worked.

unlock4moto.com

good luck..
[Motorola Droid 3] Dri94:
when did you purchase it?
[Motorola Droid 3] Ed27:
I bought it yesterday
[Motorola Droid 3] solidsnake:
How long did it take them to send you the code?
[Motorola Droid 3] Ed27:
30 to 45 minutes
[Motorola Droid 3] solidsnake:
I have been waiting for the past 2 hours, still nothing... are you sure its not a fraud website?

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Also the contact number is somewhere in Europe (Poland).
[Motorola Droid 3] Ed27:
its not a fraud website for me work fine, just wait until tomorrow morning and check your email
[Motorola Droid 3] solidsnake:
Got the Unlock code after 8 hours, Maybe it was the time in europe that was the problem.

Ordered another code just now and got the code in 10 mins. :)

Oh and yeah the codes work perfectly... Thanks for the link :-)
[Motorola Droid 3] erfannf2:
Does unlocking with this method makes D3 compatible with World GSM networks?
[Motorola Droid 3] Dri94:
europe is 6 hours ahead. well italy is, so poland is probably 8 hours ahead EST so plan accordingly. And thanks you alot to the OP who found the first site to work now
[Motorola Droid 3] solidsnake:
At least I can confirm out of USA GSM. but don't know about TMO and other GSM providers in the US, but I think I saw a thread about unlocking them as well. so good luck!
[Motorola Droid 3] sloaxleak:
Hello. I used this service and everything is ok... my droid 3 was unlocked in just 1 hour.

Goodl uck
[Motorola Droid 3] boazal:
XT860 unlocking

yesterday i used:

"www.mobileincanada.com", $20 and 20 minutes and it's done!

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XT860 on GSM (out of Canada)
[Motorola Droid 3] mtva24:
so does this mean i can report my phone lost/stolen, get a new one for $50 from asurion and unlock the old one?
[Motorola Droid 3] jellydroid13:
noob question but will it work on any rom such as cm9?
[Motorola Droid 3] quetonix:
Yep, should work on any ROM as its an unlock code, OS independent. unless someone can justify why not?